This blog is for fun to keep track of my journal entries while I learn Hindi. I plan to write posts in the middle of the night while I am sleep deprived and though I can’t promise that entries will be error and/or sarcasm free I hope you are able to look past the mess and enjoy. I also believe and hope that through my journal you will find some beauty in cross-cultural dialog, education and friendships….
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

They All Speak a Different Language

I have friends from all over India here in the us. One night I was hanging out with about 10 Hindi speaking friends. They were all speaking different dialects, had different accents, and some may have even been speaking Urdu and i would have never known.

This to me is absolutely fascinating. ugh though I am not quite sure how it will impact my learning. Maybe it will make me more diverse or just confuse...but In reality, I will just accept it as a lot of fun.

I guess my current plan is to keep learning all that I can (and at times filter out what is the most important and the general idea).

My current tip (to myself) in regard to spelling is to learn from one good resource mainly and take everything else with a grain of salt. sticking with one source will also help me learn the alphabet and transliterations better... Shyad, I will add more sources/spellings as I become more comfortable.

Since I began this post I have encountered one big problem with the one source strategy but will get to that in a future blog post.